20s: Jelly Roll Morton
30s: Django Reinhardt
40s: Cab Calloway
50s: Art Blakey
60s: Sun Ra
70s: Fleetwood Mac
80s: Foetus
90s: Swans
00s: Liars
10s (so far): Shining

50's: John Coltrane
60's: Love
70's: Pink Floyd
80's: Slayer
90's: Screaming Trees
00's: Radiohead

50's: Little Richard
60's: The Kinks
70's: Bob Dylan
80's: Talking Heads
90's: R.E.M.
00's: The Black Keys
10's: Dirty Beaches

This list is certainly not my top 6 artists of all time.

bit younger so;

80's - marvin gaye
90's - 2pac
00's - Jayz

50s: Charles Mingus
60s: The Velvet Underground/Bob Dylan
70s: The Rolling Stones
80s: The Smiths
90s: Elliott Smith
00s: Radiohead/Modest Mouse

Goog call on Modest Mouse. The Lonesome Crowded West, The Moon & Antartica or Good News?

50s: Frank Sinatra
60s: Creedence Clearwater Revival
70s: ZZ Top
80s: Quiet Riot
90s: The Pogues
00s: Streetlight Manifesto

50s: Fats Domino
60s: The Beatles
70s: Hendrix
80s: The Talking Heads?
90s: Modest Mouse (late 90s)
00s: The National/ Modest Mouse
10s: Too early to be fair but so far... Dr. Dog (not really but whatever)

00s= Beyonce.

Screaming Trees put out their SST stuff in the 80's. You like their major label stuff better?